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annie, you can have a digital SLR. Good quality + no film waste Take a look at http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/index.htm My father has a D100 and it's really good

Looks OK. I still prefer a nice SLR (Single Lens Reflex) digital camera for taking pictures and a cell phone to make phone calls. Unfortunately, it's harder and harder to find a cell phone that doesn't make pancakes...

The Slashdot article I mentioned refers WordPress as a possible substitute. http://wordpress.org/

Yes, I know what you mean and I agree. I was just kidding about the messenger being trusted thing. Unfortunately, computers are not like cars and so anyone can use one even without knowing what they're doing

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/14/1314256.shtml?tid=149&tid=185&tid=99

I know what Jailshell is but I've never seen it, so I still don't understand how it relates to a web browser. Is it a Java applet? Something like phpShell?

No, you don't need to switch browsers in order to view a flash animation or a Java applet. Those plugins are available for Firefox: Flash: http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/ Java: http://java.com I can understand that you feel comfortable with Outlook Express and Internet Explorer but... do you feel comfortable with all the pop-ups, spam and viruses too? Give it a try, use Firefox and Thunderbird for a few days. I doubt you'll regret it Edit: Isn't Jailshell a server side program that grants a restricted shell access? What does Firefox (or any other browser) have to do with that?

Trusted? Come on, Jim, you're not serious, are you? http://www.google.com/search?q=hijacking+msn+messenger That's what I like the best in MS products: a flaw in one of them allows access to other programs that (shouldn't) have nothing to do with each other

Take a look at this page: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm As for Firefox, the only things I change from their default settings are (to access them, go to the "Tools" menu and click on "Options..."): Under privacy, disable the saved passwords and form information and options. I also set the cookies option to enable cookies for the originating We b site only. Under Web Features, I click the Advanced button for JavaScript and disable the first three options (Move or resize existing windows, Raise or lower windows, hide the status bar). Under advanced, I also enable the Use smooth scrolling option. Other than that, I have a few extensions that I find very usefull: JSLib Nuke Anything Live HTTP Headers Magpie UserAgent switcher Tabbrowser Flashblock You can find those on http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

Well, assuming you're not willing to switch to a non-MS Operating System, I'd advise you to at least switch to another browser. I suggest Mozilla "goodbye pop-ups" Firefox (http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/) If you use Outlook / Outlook Express, I would also advise you to switch to another mail client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird (http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) That way, you will also get rid of most of those pesky viruses that are messing up every windows computer on earth Finally, check the list of running processes and see if there's anything strange. Try another virus scanner. Install a firewall. While I used Windows, apart from not using the MS-lame-excuse-for-a-browser and MS-lame-excuse-for-a-mail-client (aka Internet Explorer and Outlook Express ), I always kept an anti-virus and a firewall running and I never had a single problem with pop-ups, ads or viruses.

Glad you got it working, Robert One question: did you think about the possibility of someone not having cookies enabled?

Great! Glad I could help

You can always submit a help-desk ticket so the techs can analyze the possibility of installing it. Other than that, you can give these a try: http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ http://www.phparch.com/issuedata/2002/december/sample.php http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/pdf-o-matic.php

Same here. With FireFox, everything shows up just fine but when I tried it on my sister's computer (IE6), all the lines were overlapped... that's really odd, it shouldn't happen...

It appears to be working just fine, here. I don't see anything wrong with your code, either.

Setting up multiple accounts on ThunderBird is a piece of cake. And it's even better than Outlook Express (not difficult, I know... ) because each account gets its own folders but you can customize the whole thing to drop the e-mails to wherever you want As for the filtering, you wouldn't believe how much you can do with ThunderBird's filters... And as if all this isn't enough, there's also the no-more-email-virus incentive! Give it a try for a couple of days. I doubt you'll go back to Outlook Express.

Well, you could always write a little script to see how big the page is and, based on that size, decide whether or not to use compression

Lisa: it depends. Are you on a shared server?... Robert: only if you think your website will cause heavy load on the server. For a modest site, I don't think there will be any problem. I have it activated on all my sites (one of them has hundreds of visits every day) and never had any problem.

GZipping the output of PHP shouldn't be a big load on the server. Well, unless you're running Slashdot, of course About the MySQL question, the idea is: any text that PHP outputs will get compressed. If you use PHP to fetch data from MySQL and then output that data, it will be compressed, unless it's an image, or something like that. Text files are compressed. Other types of files are not.

Arvind is right, it shouldn't matter where you put that code, as long as it's in a line alone. Robert, that line activates PHP's transparent gzip compression of code. It means that everthing PHP outputs is compressed by gzip, meaning it will eat less bandwidth and be transfered faster to your visitors. Good stuff Thumbs Up

In that case, you just need to add that line to .htaccess under the public_html folder (if .htaccess doesn't exist, create the file). That's all there is to it. All PHP files will be transparently compressed on the server and sent to the client. Try visiting this site: http://www.desilva.biz/gzip-test.php then add the .htaccess stuff and visit the site again. You should be able to note the difference

Moved to the propper forum.

Karl, adding that to .htaccess will only help you if you have some PHP stuff on your website. If you don't use PHP at all, it's useless.

For future reference, CGI-Proxy or any other kind of web-proxy is not allowed on TCH servers.

Chris, you are correct, 127.0.0.1 and localhost refer to the computer itself, not another computer on the network. If you use those on the SkypHosts If you have a dynamic IP address, you don't have a way to keep yourself from being tracked by AWStats. Unless, as Rob said, you are willing to sacrifice a lot of your ISP clients' visits to your site.